Desperate for help BSOD when dual booting or formating

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mickmiDO

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Hi everyone, I'd appreciate if anyone could help me I've already posted about this but all the solutions were inaffective. So here's the thing, I'm using a Dell studio 1537 laptop running Vista Home 64bit. I want to dual boot my OS with Xp but I always get a BSOD even when I only wanna format and reinstall Vista. At first, when I had those blue screens, Minidump files were created and I used them to google a solution and try to fix this.

http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/266620-bsod-dual-boot-xp.html

That is the previous post.
I did everything and now it still doesnt work after updating the drivers, removing them , updating to SP2 etc...

I really need to get this working plzzzz somebody HELP

thanks in advance
 

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mickmiDO said:
Hi everyone, I'd appreciate if anyone could help me I've already posted about this but all the solutions were inaffective. So here's the thing, I'm using a Dell studio 1537 laptop running Vista Home 64bit. I want to dual boot my OS with Xp but I always get a BSOD even when I only wanna format and reinstall Vista. At first, when I had those blue screens, Minidump files were created and I used them to google a solution and try to fix this.

http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/266620-bsod-dual-boot-xp.html

That is the previous post.
I did everything and now it still doesnt work after updating the drivers, removing them , updating to SP2 etc...

I really need to get this working plzzzz somebody HELP

thanks in advance
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Hi and welcome

Could you tell us exactly where you are? Is there as OS set up? can you boot to dvd? does the machine finish post?

Ken
 

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I can start the computer and use it...the BSOD only happens when I try to format and install vista or xp or when I try to create a partition and install an OS. I would give you the crash dump files but it didnt create any.

When I try to format..it says setup is inspecting your configuration, then it starts loading the files and everything works fine but at a certain point it crashes and gives me a BSOD. I can't reach the part where I choose a partition to format or create one.

From the top of my head the error was 0X0000007b I think

This week I had 0X000000A but I had just installed a program ..so I booted in safe mode and uninstalled it, while I was there I also removed the dell webcam integraded driver because someone from this forum suggested that the BSOD STOP 0X0000007b could've been caused by that.

I also downloaded and installed Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and updated a lot of drivers. Aftger that, I downloaded The BIOS upgrade from the manufacturers website (dell.com) and ran it. None of this worked. I found this is it any good? I'm not really good with computers so...
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19265216/19458989.aspx


Hopes this clarifies things a bit.

Mick
 
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WELL WELL, I finally did it after reading forums for hours...now only need to change my sata disk back to AHCI...I need to find the drivers for that!

Any idea on how to do that? well find the drivers how do I know what to look for?
 

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Does the system work properly if you change to AHCI in the BIOS? If so, no drivers are needed.

The point here is that installing the OS's should install the AHCI drivers automatically - if it doesn't then you'll need to load those drivers at the F6/Load Drivers prompt during installation.
 

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